PORTHMADOG have suffered a double blow this week with the loss of two key strikers.

Experienced front man Paul Roberts has joined Newtown, while on-loan 19-year-old forward Marc Evans has been recalled by Llangefni Town.

The two departures add to the headaches of Port manager Tomi Morgan, whose team lie third bottom of the Welsh Premier and are badly lacking in goals.

Morgan has brought in 31-year-old striker Andy Evans from Aberystwyth in the transfer window, but now needs to add further strength to the squad.

"We have obviously already signed Andy, which is great, but I think I’m looking for another two or possibly three new players to come in before the end of January," said the Port boss.

"I’m looking for another striker first and then a central midfielder, then depending on how things go maybe a defender as well."

At the start of January, Morgan lost left-winger Mike Thompson to Bala Town, and this week Cymru Alliance title challengers Llangefni took back Evans, who was supposed to be with Porthmadog until the end of the season.

"I’m not sure what happened with Marc to be honest, I thought it was up to us to say if we wanted to release him, but Llangefni have called him back which I didn’t know they could do," Morgan said.

Roberts, 32, who boasts 139 goals in 328 Welsh Premier appearances, rejoined Port last summer for a third spell, but had struggled to find the net.

Meanwhile, Port host Bala Town this Saturday hoping to begin a march up the Welsh Premier.

The Lakesiders travel to the Traeth having won three of their last five games, but Morgan remains confident about taking on a team his men held 0-0 earlier this season.

"We’re hoping it’s going to be on first; we are confident going into it but we have to perform as Bala have had a very good season so far, so it’s going to be a tough game," said Morgan.

Port will be desperate just to play having not been in action since December 27 at Bangor City, where they lost 2-0.

Morgan remains hopeful of building a squad capable of staying in the Welsh Premier and pushing into the all-important top 10 ahead of the pyramid shake-up next year.

"If you look we are only five or six places from staying up," he reasoned.

"When you look at our results as well there have been about five or six games where we have lost by the odd goal and could have got a result out of.

"There are many stringent guidelines on clubs that want to stay up and there are a lot of clubs that want to make the cut so who knows what could happen, but we aim to stay in the Welsh Premier."